Bioassay technique using nonspecific est
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Philippe Bogaerts; Jean Senaud; Jacques Bohatier
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A simple and rapid test for screening and assessing the cytotoxicity of xenobiotics was developed with Tetrahymena pyriformis. The method estimates the activities of nonspecific esterases of a cell by concentrating within it a specific amount of fluorescence associated with fluorescein dye. The 1-h